With tensions between Alex Rodriguez and Major League Baseball continuing to rise as they battle over A-Rod’s 211-game suspension, Team A-Rod offered a novel suggestion Monday that will never become reality:

Open A-Rod’s appeal hearing to all.

“What we prefer is for the hearing to be open publicly,” Joseph Tacopina, A-Rod’s lead attorney, said at a media gathering at the Midtown Manhattan offices of the law firm Reed Smith. “It’s not serving us to have people hiding behind confidentiality rules. All we want is for the truth to come out.”

A-Rod’s lawyers invited a small group of media initially to dispense information they collected from a purported “whistleblower,” a longtime MLB employee who allegedly shared information about the practices of the league’s investigative team — a topic on which Team A-Rod has made myriad accusations. However, independent arbitrator Fredric Horowitz, backed by the vote of his fellow panelist MLB COO Rob Manfred, issued an injunction at about 5 p.m. — the scheduled time of the gathering — that prevented Team A-Rod from holding a news conference relating in any way to the hearing, which is on hiatus until Nov. 18.

“We think the arbitrator issued an appropriate ruling consistent with the confidentiality provisions of the Basic Agreement,” MLB said in a statement. “The fact that they cancelled the briefing shows that we were right in asking that they stop publicly commenting about this matter while we are in the midst of an arbitration hearing.”

Tacopina accused MLB of “selective leaks” about the A-Rod case, and he noted an Associated Press story in which Manfred disputed an accounting of his testimony last week. The AP reported Manfred testified he wasn’t concerned whether MLB’s star witness Anthony Bosch sold illegal performance-enhancing drugs to minors.

“Rob Manfred releases his version of the testimony,” Tacopina said. “Put out the full transcript.”

A release of the full transcript also would settle the disputed matter of whether A-Rod testified he paid $305,000 for evidence from Biogenesis, the shuttered South Florida anti-aging clinic. But it isn’t happening. Nor will the hearing be welcoming outsiders.

Team A-Rod also revealed well-known attorney Lanny Davis has been aboard for about a month and a half. Davis, who attended the gathering, served as a special counsel to President Bill Clinton from 1996 to 1998 and was appointed by Clinton’s successor, George W. Bush, to serve on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.

Asked what compelled him to help Rodriguez, Davis said, “Due process and fairness, and equal treatment. That’s my primary concern.” He said he thought Horowitz’s ruling Monday was unfair, as it targeted Team A-Rod.

A-Rod didn’t attend the gathering, but he has been at the hearing every day — there have been eight days of testimony so far, and it’s about halfway finished — and plans to continue doing so.

“He really is someone who strikes us as a special guy,” Tacopina said of A-Rod. “He has dignity and grace stapled across his forehead. He is an impressive guy. He probably does a lot to keep us cool. It’s not easy. There’s a lot going on.”